King Faraday
King Faraday is a fictional secret agent featured in DC Comics. Faraday first appeared in Danger Trail #1, and was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
Faraday's last appearance in the 1950s was in World's Finest Comics #64. He was picked up again after more than twenty-five years, in Batman #313.
Fictional character biography
He is named "King" by his father as a joke, a play on the phrase "King for a day".An ex-soldier, he takes a position as a counter-espionage agent for the U.S. government and engages in a variety of standard spy-type capers. Some of his Danger Trail adventures are reprinted in Showcase #50 under the title "I-Spy". Faraday is later incorporated into the DC Universe as a member of the Central Bureau of Intelligence. He is also Nightshade's mentor, and recruited her and Bronze Tiger into Task Force X.
In One Year Later, Faraday is a member of Checkmate, serving as the Bishop for White Queen Amanda Waller.
In The New 52: Futures End, Faraday works with Grifter to investigate alien and cross-dimensional spies on Earth.
Skills and abilities
Faraday possesses no superhuman abilities but is a trained espionage agent and an expert hand-to-hand fighter and marksman.Other versions
- An alternate universe variant of King Faraday appears in the Tangent Comics one-shot Green Lantern. This version is a Moldavan exile and detective who died in a plane crash before Green Lantern temporarily resurrects him to solve his last unfinished case.
- An alternate universe variant of King Faraday appears in DC: The New Frontier. This version is the leader of Project Flying Cloud, a movement to capture metahumans. However, he befriends Martian Manhunter and later sacrifices himself to save him from The Centre.
In other media
Television
- King Faraday appears in Justice League Unlimited, voiced by Scott Patterson. This version is the Justice League's liaison with the U.S. government.
- King Faraday appears in the Young Justice episode "Performance", voiced by Clancy Brown. This version is an agent of Interpol.
Film
- The New Frontier incarnation of King Faraday appears in Justice League: The New Frontier, voiced by Phil Morris.
- King Faraday appears in Catwoman: Hunted, voiced by Jonathan Frakes. This version is an agent of Interpol.
- King Faraday appears in Justice League: Warworld, voiced by Frank Grillo.
Video games